LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Celebrate!
In May we recognised our volunteers', supporters' and fundraisers' outstanding achievements at our Annual Presentation of Awards
HRH The Duke of Gloucester was the RNLI Guest of...
Category: Articles
Jubilee of the Walton and Frinton Station
THE life-boat station at Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton, Essex, celebrated its jubilee with a dinner on 17th November. Fifty years before, almost to a day, on 18th November, 1884, the inaugural ceremony was held of the first* Walton...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society completed its first hundred years of work in February, 1939. The Institu- tion sent its cordial congratulations to the Society on its magnificent record of 897,801...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1924
Time of Launching.
Jan. 1. 6.10p.m.
6. 10. 0p.m.
„ 7. 4.45 a.m.
„ 8. 12 noon.
„ 9. 1.55 a.m.
„ 9. 5. 0 a.m.<...
Category: Services
Your Letters
The Samtampa remembered On browsing through the Summer 1992 edition of THE LIFEBOAT I saw an article refering to the Mumbles lifeboat and Samtampa tragedy.
At that time I was stationed at Porthcawl with the RAF No. 1105...
Category: Correspondence
Some Special Gifts
In Gratitude.
ON 23rd September last, the steamer City of Osaka, belonging to the Hall Line, went on the rocks south of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and was holed. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea, when the...
Category: Donations
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING April, May, June and July the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recogni- tion of their services in the cause of the Institution:— To Mr. S. J. R. LEGEHTON, on his...
Category: Awards
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 14th of March, 1865, His Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, K.T., P.O., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
Unseaworthy Ships
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, As the saving of life from shipwreck must always be a subject of great interest to the public of this country, by whatever means it may be...
Category: Correspondence
Meetings of Committee
1st July. T. WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
At a Special General Meeting of the Institution, convened pursuant to advertisement, confirmed the alterations in the Rules and Regulations as adopted at the previous Special...
Category: Committee